Jennifer Aniston and Brad PittJennifer Aniston dumped Brad Pitt not vice versa, according to Jennifer’s close friend Sheryl Crow.

Jennifer and Brad announced the end of their marriage in January 2005 and the speed of his cohabitation with Angelina Jolie sparked many to believe he had left Jennifer for his Mr and Mrs Smith co-star.

However Sheryl has now said that wasn’t the case - and similarly, she wasn’t dumped by her former fiance Lance Armstrong either: “For both of us, the perceived idea is that, in our big relationships, we both got dumped. Believe me, this is not true.”

“Neither one of us has ever gotten dumped. No one ever knows what goes on in relationships.”

“Unfortunately, for some people like Jennifer and me, so much is written about things that you don’t say, and so many emotions are attributed to you that you haven’t had.”

A source close to the former Friends star has backed up Sheryl’s assertions, adding: “[Jennifer] took a cold, hard look at her marriage and realised it was irretrievably broken. She and Brad had vastly different personal agendas and feelings about love, career and having a family.”